limpkin

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A large brownish wading bird (Aramus guarauna) of warm, swampy regions of the New World, having long legs, a drooping bill, and a distinctive wailing call. Also called courlan.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A large bird, Aramus guarauna, found in marshes in the Caribbean, Central America and southern Florida.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are remarkable for the great length of the toes. One species (Aramus giganteus) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other (Aramus scolopaceus) is found in South America. Called also courlan, and crying bird.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A local (Florida) name of the crying-bird or courlan, Aramus giganteus. See courlan, Aramus.

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The third visual on this page is not a limpkin. It is a wood stork, the largest member of the ibis family in N.A. Nicknames of the wood stork include ironhead, flinthead, preacher, Spanish buzzard, and gourdhead.

Thanks for the link, arby (actually it's .org.uk, but I found it)! I have a LiveJournal account but all my blogging is hosted on my own server... which is nice because I get detailed server logs that could tell me everything I'd ever want to know, if I bothered to look at them. ;-)

I usually end up being pretty far off the mark. :-) But in cases where Wordies also post, blog, etc., elsewhere online, it's not difficult to see what people look like, at least (personality traits aside).

As an aside, it would be interesting to see what each of us thinks the others look like, and the other personality traits concealed by the text-only design of Wordie. But yeah, that kind of exercise would completely destroy everybody's Wordie Mystique. And I'm not so sure I'm ready to give mine up.

You're on the right track, arby. I hail from where Reese's PB cups are made--actually worked at the PB cup factory during summers when I was in college. The "tee" part comes from the first initial of my first name. :-)

reesetee - it's cuter than ever, poor little limpkin. BTW what's the story behind reesetee anyway? I always think of Reese's PB cups (which the Southern members of my family pronounce "Reecie's") when I see it.

Funny, did you know the restaurant name is also a phonetic spelling of R.B., for "Raffel Brothers," the siblings who started the company? It's also used as the abbreviation for "roast beef," the place's main product, though that was not the original intention of the name.

uselessness - no, it's a phonetic spelling of my first and middle initials - R.B. Although I bet people think I have a weird fixation with the restaurant. For some reason though to me the capitalization of "Arby's" makes a huge difference - not to mention the possessive.